{"id":360,"date":"2015-06-23T13:29:45","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T13:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/midatlantic2\/?page_id=360"},"modified":"2026-03-04T19:30:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T19:30:01","slug":"2015-student-award-winners","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/midatlantic\/past-meetings\/2015-student-award-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"2015 Student Award Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Oral Presentations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Undergraduate Students<\/p>\n<p>First place<\/p>\n<p>Kayla Jane Nowak, Penn State University, Impacts of Zucchini yellow mosaic virus on the establishment and spread of Powdery Mildew in wild squash<\/p>\n<p>Second place<\/p>\n<p>Elsa Claburn Wieboldt, Roanoke College, Land use effects on earthworm community composition on agricultural lands in Southwestern Virginia<\/p>\n<p>Honorable mention<\/p>\n<p>Zachary Barker, Susquehanna University, Temporal variation in leaf litter invertebrates available to <em>Plethodon cinereus<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Melissa Harrison Hey, The College of William and Mary, Consequences of plant density and natural versus simulated herbivory for common milkweed<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Graduate Students<\/p>\n<p>First place<\/p>\n<p>Mary D. Seward, The College of William and Mary, Clonal integration and the sharing of resources in common milkweed, <em>Asclepias syriaca<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Second place<\/p>\n<p>Danelle Rae Weakland, Penn State University, Impact of Zucchini yellow mosaic virus on the competitive ability of pollen in a population of transgenic wild squash<\/p>\n<p>Honorable mention<\/p>\n<p>Stephanie A. Dowell, Fordham University, Monitoring monitors: Genetically sourcing invasive populations of Nile monitors (<em>Varanus niloticus<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Poster Presentations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Undergraduate Students<\/p>\n<p>First place<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca Ann Wilkes, Washington and Jefferson College, On the border: Is emerald ash borer associated with ash trees exposed to higher light intensity?<\/p>\n<p>Second place<\/p>\n<p>Danielle Bara, Ramapo College of New Jersey, Spatial distribution of American chestnut seedlings and saplings in a forest tract along the highest ridge of the New Jersey Highlands<\/p>\n<p>Graduate Students<\/p>\n<p>First place<\/p>\n<p>Kimberly Plank, Rutgers University. The root of the matter: A phylogenetic study of polyphenol oxidase (PPO) enzyme distribution within the plant family <em>Poaceae<\/em> (grass) and the highly invasive genus <em>Bromus<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Second place<\/p>\n<p>Mallory Anne Hagadorn, Salisbury University, Gut microbial community in Maryland populations of <em>Onthophagus taurus<\/em> Schreber<\/p>\n<p>Honorable mention<\/p>\n<p>Alexis Kleinbeck, Rutgers University, Modeling the impacts of sea level rise on ecosystem services of the urban-coastal fringe in Jamaica Bay, New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oral Presentations Undergraduate Students First place Kayla Jane Nowak, Penn State University, Impacts of Zucchini yellow mosaic virus on the establishment and spread of Powdery Mildew in wild squash Second place Elsa Claburn Wieboldt, Roanoke College, Land use effects on earthworm community composition on agricultural lands in Southwestern Virginia Honorable mention Zachary Barker, Susquehanna University, Temporal variation in leaf litter&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":890,"featured_media":0,"parent":34,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-360","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/midatlantic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/midatlantic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/midatlantic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/midatlantic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/890"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/midatlantic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/midatlantic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1452,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/midatlantic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/360\/revisions\/1452"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/midatlantic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/midatlantic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}